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Automated traders eye social media sentiment
The Wall Street Journal writes about how hedge funds and proprietary traders are working to automate trading based on social media information and sentiment.
Some traders use message boards, StockTwits and Google Insights to “get a handle on the buzz for stocks they are trading,” says the report. Meanwhile, StreamBase Systems Inc. provides tools to trade [...]
Dear Moody’s Corp: Type this fast 3 times
UNDER the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial notice-and-access (N&A) process for the delivery of annual meeting materials, companies can mail their shareholders a slip of paper containing a URL where recipients can access their proxy materials online.
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) is one company that is in the process of sending such a notice to its [...]
Probing U.S. independent advisors, study finds foreign stocks and ETFs favored
A NEW survey sheds light on the growing independent investment advisor business in the United States and finds that these advisors have little interest in small-cap stocks and prefer large-cap international equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and large-cap domestic stocks.
Is Twitter secure enough for investor relations?
This is a complicated post, but I know that some people in the IR profession are very interested in this right now.
First, I am on record on this blog as saying that until Twitter is more secure, investor relations departments should steer clear of using it as a news dissemination channel and use it instead [...]
If tweets had disclaimers
TWITTER is fast becoming an important channel for public companies to communicate with investors, but the platform’s 140-character limit for messages creates compliance challenges that may be preventing more companies from participating.
How do you target 33,000 independent investment advisors?
An interesting trend that is emerging is the growth of the independent investment advisor also known as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). According to Boston-based Cerulli Associates, a research firm, the number of brokers serving individual clients at major firms dropped 14% to less than 55,000 in the three years ending in December 2008, while [...]
Did TVI Pacific’s new website miss a big opportunity? No, and here’s why
When Canadian mining junior TVI Pacific launched its new corporate website a few months ago, much was made of how the new website was leveraging social media channels to spread the company’s message.
Come on IR website vendors, put some push in your feeds
What’s with the IR website vendors and always being the last ones to the technology party?
I’ve just finished reviewing the web feed implementations of all of the IR website vendors — from Thomson Reuters to Shareholder.com to Investis to SNL to Q4 — and not one of them has implemented push on their clients’ RSS [...]
Kinross Gold ( $KGC ): We have absolutely no responsibility for our Twitter account!
THIS week, StockTwits alerted its followers to the presence of Kinross Gold Corporation on Twitter and StockTwits.
Cool, I thought, another company that groks the utility of putting a $ sign in front of your ticker symbol ($HPQ and $ABX also do it).
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